Ten illegal immigrants died Wednesday and 30 were injured when the driver of a packed minibus refused an order to stop and crashed into a shop in northwest Turkey, local officials and media said.<\/p>\n
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Ten illegal immigrants died Wednesday and 30 were injured when the driver of a packed minibus refused an order to stop and crashed into a shop in northwest Turkey, local officials and media said.<\/p>\n
The driver ignored an order by a security official to halt, speeding up instead and crashing into a shop near the Greek border, the office of the governor of Edirne province said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The private DHA news agency said there were 40 people in the minibus. All 30 survivors were injured.<\/p>\n
The nationality of illegal immigrants was not known.<\/p>\n
Migrants fleeing war and poverty use Turkey as a transit country to try and reach Europe, although the numbers have dropped since the influx hit a peak in 2015.<\/p>\n
That year saw over a million people arrive in Greece from Turkey, mostly in boats, during the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.<\/p>\n
But a March 2016, a deal between Ankara and the European Union helped staunch the flow.<\/p>\n
Turkey has about four million refugees \u2014 the highest number in the world \u2014 most of them Syrians.<\/p>\n
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